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I checked with a friend who does very high end home theater work. He said he knows of no IR transparent cloth and they have had spotty and inconsistent results with metal screen. They prefer the certainty of Dinky Link products.

I checked with a friend who does very high end home theater work. He said he knows of no IR transparent cloth and they have had spotty and inconsistent results with metal screen. They prefer the certainty of Dinky Link products.

That's exactly why I suggested fabric screen, which is generally made of fiberglass. That should be IR transparent, and can be gotten in grey or charcoal.

Please keep in mind that although acoustically transparent speaker mesh material is IR transparent, it is NOT as transparent in regards to air flow. If your concern is to allow your components to "breath" without having to leave the cabinet doors open, then putting speaker mesh probably will not help.

I have an entertainment cabinet that houses an AV receiver, along with several D* HD DVRs. To keep the look consistent with the mesh of the center channel speaker enclosure, we also put speaker mesh on the cabinet doors.

It turned out that the temperature in the cabinets (we have a temp gauge in there) would still be too high and we had to leave the doors open to allow sufficient air flow to cool it down.

We ended up removing the mesh from the cabinet doors and now it just looks like "spotless glass" on those doors.

I am now considering putting a large-opening, thin metal mesh on the doors instead. Sort of like a chicken-wire type, speaker grill.

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